Category: series
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Upcoming Concert Roundup for October (In Chicago)
From time to time flowsfordays will be scouring the internet for upcoming concerts that you just can’t miss. This way, instead of finding concert footage on YouTube and Twitter and realizing you missed a show from one of your favorite artists, you can be in the know ahead of time. We will mostly be focusing…
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Interview With Freako on new EP ‘Vacation’ (Dissection Interview Series)
Our new dissection series has become a Chicago affair. I wouldn’t have it any other way as we are based in Chicago and I (Julie) call it my home town. I have carried on the tradition with Freako, a budding artist out of the windy city. He’s no stranger to the music scene, dropping two…
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The Better Half – (Best SoundCloud Songs From October 1-15th)
And another one! Hello faithful readers. Welcome to our bi-monthly series The Better Half. flowsfordays will be curating a playlist showcasing the best SoundCloud releases in the last 15 days (give or take, depending on how many days are in the month.) Instead of perusing through your SoundCloud feed, you will now have a simple way to hear…
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Most Played Chicago + Baltimore Songs (TheDemoTape + flowsfordays Collab)
Justice, the co-creator of influential blog The Demo Tape, hit me up a few days ago wanting to exchange some of our favorite music from our hometowns. He’s from Baltimore and I’m from Chicago. We decided to write a collaborative article on the songs we are bumping from artists out of our cities. For me…
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Interview With Pavy on new music video ‘Drift’ (Dissection Interview Series)
This dissection series has been a blast for me. It’s such a fun way to learn about content that I find so compelling. For the last two posts (C$ + Säge The 64th Wonder) I asked about these artists about the way their new songs came to me. Today we are getting the low down on a…
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Interview with C$’s on new single ‘Brand New’ (Dissection Interview Series)
We are back with another track dissection! We started off with Säge The 64th Wonder yesterday (read it here), and today we are talking to another Chicago artist named C$ (pronounced C Money.) I loved his new single Brand New which was even featured on Fake Shore Drive, so I decided to ask him a few more…
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Revisiting A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie’s ‘Artist: The Mixtape’ (Top 5 Tracks To Check Out)
To say A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie’s debut mixtape Artist (free download here) was a commercial success would be an understatement. Tons of articles have been written about the brilliance of the tape, his “modernization of New York Hip Hop”, sudden buzz, his music that blurs the line between trap & r&b and much much more.…
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Talking with Säge The 64th Wonder on new single ‘Gold Dirty’ (Dissection Interview Series)
Chicago emcee Säge The 64th Wonder has peaked my interest since my early years of posting his music. Now he’s dropping the best music he’s ever created (in my humble opinion). The surprise Album on X-Mas is quite good and much appreciated. My favorite track on the album (and of the week) is Gold Dirty featuring…
